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brought in. I don't recall the name of the witness at this time, which was in Bonham's report. That was to the effect that this person had in a restaurant at an earlier period seen Bridges pay his dues in the Communist party to an individual who was collecting the dues. That took place in a public restaurant where other people were present and there seemed to be no secrecy about it according to this witness's statement. He recalled the fact because there was some joshing about the fact that Bridges hadn't paid up yet. I think we had doubt as to whether he knew that they were Communist party dues, but they were some kind of dues.

Those were the two things that Bonham produced. This, of course, came into the Department of Labor officially and properly from Bonham to the Commissioner of Immigration, and was brought down to me at once by the Commissioner of Immigration. Now, it is true that if Bridges had not been a labor leader and had not taken part in a strike of considerable importance, which had lasted a long time, stirred up great controversy, and won for his union and himself a standing on the Pacific Coast they didn't have previously, it is quite unlikely that the matter would have come to my attention in the first instance - that is, the Commissioner of Immigration